Web Services Modules

For simple web services there is no need to think much about how to organize code. We can just put everything in one module and are finished.

But as the project grows we might get more and more endpoints. Perhaps we have multiple entities in this web service. Before we have created another monolithic monstrosity we should split things up into multiple modules which are much easier to handle than one big module with thousands of lines of code.

In the Tour of Champions application we have the entities award, champion, country and expertise. We can easily split the web service code up into one module for each entity. This makes things much simpler. And we have one module for the web service itself where the endpoints and plugins are registered.

Note: I like to use case sensitvity when it comes to procedure names and so I create prototypes for the endpoints which I put into an extra copybook (routes.rpginc) which is solely used internally and is included by the web service module (champions.rpgmod).